Hair curling device



Feb. 18, 1941. J CURRY I 2,232,654

J HAIR CURLING DEVICE I Filed Feb. 15, 1940 INVENTOR FRANCIS JOSE PH CURRY ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 18, 1941 UNIV-TED T STATES mun OURLING n'Ev'iQ i Francis J oseph Curry, Birmingham, England, as-

signor to Jarrett Rainsford and Laughton Limited, Birmingham, England N i Application February15, 1940, Serial No. 319,125

" I In Great Britain February 16, 1939 Claims. (o1.,132-4-1) A hair curling device according to this invention is of the kind in which two resilient limbs or blades which tend to spring apart at one end are hinged at theirjunction at the other end to a frame member, and this frame surrounds the limbs and at its end remote from the hinge carries a slide bar capable of being passed over the free ends of the spring limbs when they have been closed against each other thereby retaining them in this closed position.

The end of a lock of hair is inserted between the limbs which are closed on to it and the curler is turned to roll the hair around the limbs, the

frame is then turned so as to enclose the limbs and the parts are secured in this position by moving the slide bar on to the ends of the limbs.

The frame is usually made of wire in one piece. This is usually bent to an approximately oblong rectangular, or oval shape and its ends are cranked 30 toward each other and are brought together and enclosed in a sheet metal cap or sleeve. Before the ends are secured in the sleeve, a slotted slide bar, or a loop, is passed on to parallel parts of the wire near their extremities so that it can 25 slide thereon and can pass over the ends of the spring limbs.

The present invention consists in an improvement in construction in which the slide bar and the cap or sleeve part over the frame extremities are united in one simple pressing, which is more effectually guided, is more convenient and pleasant to handle, and is less likely to become caught up or entangled in the hair at the slide bar than is the known construction.

The pressing, or sliding cap member, is made from a strip of metal, one end half of which is formed with two outward lugs for curling over the frame bars to form guide sleeves for slidably mounting the pressing, and the other end half car- 40 ries outward flanges which are closed over the edges of the first half and the side bars of the frame when the two halves are doubled over on each other and over the extremities of the frame.

A slot or recess is provided in each half for 45 forming a snap connection with a corrugation or rib on the ends of the spring limbs or blades of the device.

The appended drawing illustrates the improved construction.

50 Figure 1 is an elevation of the waver device in closed position.

' Figure 2 is a side view with the limbs of the spring part released.

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the sliding cap member partially folded over.

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' fgufre 4:18 an] enlarged cross section on line 4-''4 of Figure '1. v

Figure-5 is" aview 'of a blank for making the pressing or sliding cap member.

Figure 6 is a slightly modifiedform of waver 5 device.

The hair waving device may follow any known or suitable lines as far as concerns the nature and particular shape of the surrounding frame a and the spring hair-clamping limbs b, which are 10 hinged on one end bar of the frame. In this appended drawing the frame is roughly rectangular oblong in shape, with a reduced width extending for some distance at one end as at c where the extremities d of the composing wire are cranked and eventually brought together or approximately so.

The resilient limbs b are shown as made of fiat metal bent into a V shape with the apex of the V pressed into part cylindrical section as at e in order to form the hinge around the frame end bar f.

The sliding cap which forms the feature of this improvement encloses and holds together the extremities d of the frame, and receives and holds the ends of the spring limbs b. It is indicated generally by the letter 9.

As here illustrated it is made from the blank shown in Figure 5 which has the opposite outwardly directed lugs h at one end and the continuous flange parts i projecting from the edges near the other end. These flanges extend from the right hand end of the blank almost to the centre of the length of the blank. M

The lugs 71. are curled inwards over the side bars a of the frame a but are not clinched tightly thereon, and the flanges 11 are pressed up from the blank and are tightly closed over the lugs 71. and the edges of the other half of the blank andalso I loosely over the side bars c when the two halves of the blank are folded over into the hollow cap 9.

The cap is thus formed on and closed over the end of the frame a in a manner leaving it free to be caused to slide by hand but preferably with a certain amount of friction so that it will normally stay put at either end of its movement.

The cap is stopped in its inward sliding movement by the bend forming its right hand end in the figures coming against the extremities d of the frame wire, and on its outward movement it is limited by the curled over sleeves formed by the lugs h coming against the said cranked in extremities d.

A slot 9' near each end of the blank seen in Figure 5 forms two opposite openings in the cap g into which the back of a corrugation or rib k, formed near the end of each of the limbs 17, will engage in the closed position of the device, Figure 1.

Instead of the slot 7' as illustrated a hollow recess inside each half of the cap would answer the same purpose.

In the modified form shown in the open posi tion in Figure 6 the sliding cap pressing is made slightly tapering towards the outer end and the parts 0 of the frame are also slightly convergent so that when it is moved inwards on to theends of the limbs b, it tends to close toward each other the bars of the frame and the cranked extremities d.

The main bars of the frame a may be waved or crimped, if desired.

I claim:

1. A hair curling device comprising an open frame havingside bars and end portions, resilient limbs hinged to one end of said frame and extending toward the other end thereof, a cap member folded longitudinally over the end of the frame receives one of the side bars of said frame whereby' the cap member may he slid longitudinally of the frame, each of the walls of the cap member including means for engaging the ends of the resil ient limbs when the cap member is moved over the ends of the'limbs.

2. A hair curling device comprising an open frame having side bars and end portions, resilient limbs hinged to one end of said frame and extendlng toward the other end thereof, a sheet metal cap foldedlongitudinally over the end of the frame remote from the hinge and securing the side bars of the frame together, said cap member having curled sleeve parts on each lateral edge of one-half thereof which slidably receive the side bars of said frame and having flanges on each lateral edge of the other half thereof which are clinched about the sleeve parts when the cap is folded over the end of the frame.

FRANCIS JOSEPH CURRY. 

